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Discovered by a famous Chinese supermodel for her striking looks, a 20-year-old waste station worker, above, turned down full-time modelling contracts. Photo: SCMP composite/Douyin

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Chinese rubbish station worker scouted for striking looks refuses full-time modelling

Leng believes that while collecting rubbish puts food on the table, modelling is a dream, and the two paths do not conflict.

Chinese doctor with PhD leaves medical career to deliver food, pursue music part-time

Chinese couple have 13 kids to avoid village bullying and elderly loneliness

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Young Chinese women sew own underwear, clothes, amid discontent with fast fashion

For many, learning to sew exposed long-standing flaws in fast fashion – poor fits, inferior fabrics, and monotonous designs.

Fed up with poor clothing quality, young women in China are increasingly sewing their own clothes. Photo: Shutterstock
Fed up with poor clothing quality, young women in China are increasingly sewing their own clothes. Photo: Shutterstock

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Mooncakes for the dog? How China is reinventing its iconic festive snack

China’s consumers appear to be going off the dense Mid-Autumn Festival treat, but tiny mooncakes for pets are a different story.

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China seal touches hearts for swimming 200km back to island after missing humans

Experts believe that because Nana was cared for by humans for so long, she now associates people with safety.

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Chinese retail chain faces rare backlash for limiting new hires to 4-year contracts

Critics brand policy ridiculous, calling it an excuse to exploit young talent and dump them as they grow experienced, harder to control.

China’s “best boss” Yu Donglai, middle, faces backlash after announcing a strict four-year hiring limit at his Pangdonglai supermarket chain. Photo: Sohu
China’s “best boss” Yu Donglai, middle, faces backlash after announcing a strict four-year hiring limit at his Pangdonglai supermarket chain. Photo: Sohu

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Chinese archaeologists find 2,200-year-old ancestor of Dragon Boat Festival treat

When we eat zongzi or other leaf-wrapped food, we can clearly appreciate that this tradition existed since ancient times, says researcher.

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Korean dating show featuring AI and human contestants sparks China fascination

Some question if AI provides an almost perfect partner will people still be able to accept friends and family who have flaws.

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Artworks reveal Chinese royalty loved role-playing long before modern cosplay

What Emperor Qianlong did with his court painters is the 18th century equivalent of digital photo manipulation and Photoshop.

Empress Dowager Cixi’s, right, passion for cosplay wasn’t unique to her; Qing dynasty artworks reveal that emperors Yongzheng and Qianlong, left, also frequently dressed up in various personas. Photo: SCMP composite/Wikipedia

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Chinese son’s video of mum’s final 14 days before leukaemia death moves millions

Son reflects that if a life is measured by its depth rather than its length, his mother’s life was rich and complete.

A man in China has touched many hearts online by capturing his mother’s final 14 days on camera, a period during which she had travelled both to visit him and to seek medical treatment. Photo: QQ.com
A man in China has touched many hearts online by capturing his mother’s final 14 days on camera, a period during which she had travelled both to visit him and to seek medical treatment. Photo: QQ.com

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China doctor quits 20-year career to open steamed bun shop for mental health relief

Her story mirrors a growing trend of doctors trading prestigious, high-stress medical careers for simpler lines of work.

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Chinese woman, 65, poses as young doctor and mum to con man out of US$25,000

Reviewing Yu’s videos, police spotted a tiny ‘AI-generated content’ disclaimer that the victim had missed.

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Chinese woman in her 70s wakes up in coffin before dying for good 2 days later

Woman likely experienced ‘apparent death,’ a comatose state where vital signs drop to a nearly undetectable level, says doctor.

The photo above shows a deceased individual inside a refrigerated mortuary compartment. A family in China was left stunned when a female relative in her 70s woke up inside her coffin. Photo: Shutterstock

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Chinese man arrested for manslaughter after good deed turns fatal

The tragedy sparks heated online debate, with many mourning a misfortune where good intentions ironically ‘paved the road to hell’.

A Chinese driver volunteering to fix potholes accidentally killed an e-bike rider after the victim struck a warning rope he had put up. Photo: SCMP composite/Sohu
A Chinese driver volunteering to fix potholes accidentally killed an e-bike rider after the victim struck a warning rope he had put up. Photo: SCMP composite/Sohu

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Chinese man sues AI firm after chatbot’s ‘auspicious’ date advice leads to disaster

Many noted the ultimate irony of the man using the same AI chatbot to draft a lawsuit against its developer for allegedly giving him faulty advice.

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People in China earn US$7 to US$15,000 by licensing faces to AI content producers

Some argue that for directors, only celebrities’ faces have recognition value, while everyday faces can simply be generated by AI.

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Indonesian wife, 24, surprised husband, 62, was groom at event she attended at 9

After a young Indonesian woman married a much older man who had wed twice before, she realised they had met at one of his other nuptials when she was a child.

A 19-year-old Indonesian woman finds out after marrying a man aged 57, that she attended a previous wedding of his when she was just nine years old. Photo: SCMP composite/QQ.com
A 19-year-old Indonesian woman finds out after marrying a man aged 57, that she attended a previous wedding of his when she was just nine years old. Photo: SCMP composite/QQ.com

China Personalities

Profile | Mystery Chinese woman steals show at 2024 Cannes Film Festival, but who is she?

A mystery woman from China, who stole the show on the red carpet at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, has been revealed to be a rich online influencer and wife of a famous mainland musician.

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Singaporean influencer becomes grandmother at 34, jokes that she ‘inspired’ son

A popular online influencer in Singapore who has become a grandmother at the age of 34 has pledged to support and guide her 17-year-old son.

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Man has child by surrogate without telling family as he wants to be grandfather

A 50-something woman in China was shocked to find a baby in her home when she got in from work one day, and that the child belonged to her husband who had hired a surrogacy agency without telling her.

A man had secretly hired a surrogacy agency to get a baby girl after his only daughter told him she did not want to have children. Photo: SCMP composite/Shutterstock
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Wanrong and Puyi, in Tianjin, circa 1925. Photo: Getty Images

Paul French lifts veil on final months of China’s last emperor in the Forbidden City

It is not the first biography of China’s Puyi, but Paul French’s latest book brings with it a feminine voice of modernity and fully exploits its place in the ‘doomed-monarchy’ sub-genre.

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The city of Baguio, on Luzon island, in the Philippines, was favoured by American administrators for its climate. Photo: Thomas Bird

Escape Manila’s heat for northern Luzon’s pine-scented hills and Sagada’s hanging coffins

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Wing Shya, Hong Kong-based photographer, artist and director, in Tai Hang. Photo: Alexander Mak

Wing Shya: photographer to Wong Kar-wai on working with the great and good of Hong Kong cinema

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Chef-nun Jeong Kwan at the Bukhara Biennale, in Uzbekistan, as part of a kimchi-fermentation collaboration with the Koryo-saram community. Photo: courtesy Andrey Arekelyan and Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation (ACDF)

Bukhara Biennial spearheads cultural blossoming of the city as well as the wider Uzbekistan

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Nurbol Baimukhanov’s Zhabe horse, Ayan, near Almaty, Kazakhstan. Photo: courtesy Nurbol Baimukhanov

Ode to the horse: 5,000 years of human-equine connection on display in new Kazakh museum

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The Yuen Long branch of Wing Wah Restaurant does a brisk mooncake trade ahead of the 1976 Mid-Autumn Festival. Photo: SCMP Archives

In pictures: the evolution of Hong Kong’s Mid-Autumn mooncake

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